Rush Hawkins

Rush Christopher Hawkins (14 September 1831-25 October 1920) was a Union Army Brigadier-General during the American Civil War.

Biography
Rush Christopher Hawkins was born in Pomfret, Vermont in 1831, and he served in the US Army dragoons during the Mexican-American War before settling in New York City. In 1861, he helped to raise the 9th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment at the start of the American Civil War, serving as its colonel during the 1862 North Carolina expedition. In April 1862, he became a brigade commander and was wounded in the left arm at the Battle of South Mills that same month. After recovering, he led a brigade in IX Corps at the Battle of Fredericksburg, and he fought at the Siege of Suffolk before being mustered out with his old regiment on 20 May 1863. He served in the New York State Assembly in 1872 as a Republican, and he also beceame a rare book collector. Hawkins died in 1920.